What you need:

• Elastic
• Needle and thread
• Mini pompom yarn or pompom edging

Cut a piece of elastic, the actual length will depend on how much hair you are planning to hold with this. Thread your needle at this point too. In this tutorial I’m using black thread so you can see what I’m doing but you should pick a colour that matches the yarn you have.

Grab the end of your yarn lay it out on a table in a repeated “S” shape like this:

The width of this shape should be 2.5 times the length that you want the loops of the pompoms to be on the finished hair tie. Keep going forwards and backwards until you’ve accumulated a decent amount…

You want there to be enough to cover the piece of elastic when it’s completely stretched out like below. The blue line is how long the elastic is stretched.

Take the needle and thread it through each piece of yarn along the line indicated in blue below. It should be around 1cm from the middle.

Once you reach the other side turn around and leaving a 2cm gap go back up the other side then tie it off.

So  after that you should have something like this:

Next take the piece of elastic and thread it through the track that you just made

This is the result you want…

Tie or stitch the ends of the elastic together 😀

Done!!

Now that I know how easy these things are to make I want to make a whole lot of them in different ways!!

Not really a tutorial because it’s a very simple concept.

Take the scratchy side of some velcro…

Cut it up

And glue it to the back of whatever you want to attach to your hair.

I did some ribbon flowers, stars and pearls.

Everything worked really well except the pearls because I didn’t think about the weight while I was doing it. I used glass pearls because that’s what I had on hand but they are way too heavy to be held in with jut the velco so as a quick fix I ended up using some eyelash glue to keep them in my hair on the night and using make up remover to take them out after. Like Aurorahime suggested putting real/glass pearls on the little  metal spirals to either lock them in or just use this technique with regular cheap plastic pearls, that works awesomely!

The purple/pink/blue one was from Daiso and was $2.80 and the ball of yarn below which could make like 20 hair ties was $2.

What you need:

• Pompom yarn
• Scissors
• Elastic

First thing first, cut 3 lengths of yarn with around 20 pompoms each and tie together at the end.

Now loosely plait them together in between the pompoms. Basically you want the pompoms themselves to be loose but the yarn between them to be bound together.

Something like this…

Continue until you reach the end and tie together so it doesn’t come undone.

Get your piece of elastic and tie in a loop. The size will depend on how big you want the finished product to be. You could also just use a regular hair tie here if you’ve got one handy.

Starting with one end of the yarn tie it in a knot to the elastic around where the join is.

Pull the yarn through the elastic like this…

The pull it up and through the loop it forms at the top. Almost as if you were tying a knot. Pull tight leaving one cluster of pompoms at the top.

This is what you should have…

Keep tying with the rest of the yarn making loops and leaving one cluster of pompoms on the outside each time. It’s kind of like you’re doing a blanket stitch like this.

When you run out of yarn it should look something like this:

Tie off all the random ends and you’re finished!

All finished 😀

It took me around 20min to make both of them and I think I like them more than the original! What do you guys think?

Being in a hurry to wear it when James took me on a picnic I stitched a couple of flowers on the sides to wear it out. That was was a good lesson though because that day I learned that this hat is too big and blows off at the slightest breeze *_* So something had to be done!

First thing was to remove 3-4 layers around the edge to make it less of a big sun hat and more of a cute barbers shop quartets hat 😉

Basically to do that (just like my other cancan hat tutorial) I snipped the tread and unwound it.

The stitched the end in place…

Now to prevent it from falling off I got some combs:

Pulled off the decorations….

And stitched them on the inside. Now it attaches to my hair nice and snugly and won’t go anywhere!

Nice quick modification and very happy with the results 😀

I haven’t worn it out since the modifications but this is what it looked like before I did the brim, I’ll post more photos when I wear it out.

Tomorrow I’ll show you what I did with all the left over bits from the brim! Hint: I made someone else a really small hat XD

What you need: 

• White felt
• Needle
• Ribbon
• Yellow thread
• Pen
• Scissors

Start with the white felt and draw a circle, if you need to use something round to trace around.

Cut as many circles as you want daisies. I chose to make my headband with 5 because I think odd numbers work look better.

Find the centre of the circle by folding it in half twice and putting a pen dot where the folds intersect.

Now draw a small circle in the middle which will be the yellow part in the end. Then it’s time to cut the petals, below you can see the order in which to cut. You should cut from the outside edge and stop at the inside circle. You will end up with 12 petals, the crappy diagram at the bottom has lines to show the cuts XD

Now on each of the petals cut the corner off into a rounded point.

Repeat on the other side ^_^

Now thread your needle with the yellow thread. You could either use thick embroidery thread or just double up like I did, if you use thin cotton you will be here forever.

Turn your flower over to the right side (the non-drawn on one) and running stitch around the centre circle. Pull the thread tight so the flower buckles a little and becomes more 3d and the petals stick up a bit.

Do a second round of running stitch in the gaps from the first one so it forms a complete circle of yellow:

Now stitch across the circle like this:

Then go back the other way so it forms a kind of cross hatching ^_^ and fills in the circle. Done!

Repeat for all of the daisies then sew them on to the ribbon ^_^ I used a green ribbon for the tie then added a yellow ribbon over the top as an extra dangly thingy.

And that’s it!

Wear and enjoy ^_^